Thoughts On Parade
April 16, 2007
I hate writing about current events and I’m far from the most knowledgeable person around when it comes to happenings around the world, but how can I not write about today’s tragedy at Virginia Tech?
A large part of the reason that I avoid newspapers and why I don’t watch the televised news is because of my emotional involvement. I have a very difficult time remaining neutral and stories like this just fill me with a heavy mix of rage, grief, and pain.
My heart bleeds for the people who are reliving those moments that are now forever burned in their memory. Those poor students who leapt from second-story windows to avoid being massacred and who are going to bear permanent physical and emotional scars. I physically ache for the loved ones of those 32 killed- including the family of the beastly killers who will forever wonder if their influence caused their own to run rampant and commit such a heinous act.
I read reports about how it sounds as though an angsty student was broken up over a un-fixable relationship and I’m filled with such rage. How was it necessary to take out thirty-some odd people over your failed intimacy? Where on earth did you get the idea that chaining people into classrooms and taking their lives would fix your broken heart? Who are you to ruin so many lives in your pain?
How am I supposed go on pretending that today is just like any other day when for so many people, today is the worst day of their lives? Or worse, the last day of their lives.
I ache.
I hurt.
And I grieve.